DoChara's Ireland Blog: Trivia
Random Writings about Ireland and the Irish
A Wooly Dog Story
Friday, April 27 2007
This has nothing to do with Ireland - but you just have to laugh! Over 2000 Japanese have apparantly paid around $1600 each for a lamb - believing they were buying Poodles!! In their defense, sheep are apparantly rare in Japan and hardly anyone... [More]
Sometimes I Wonder Why I Bother.
Saturday, April 7 2007
Now and again I get an irate email from someone involved in some tourist industry sector in Ireland complaining that this site doesn't say enough (or anything) about their product or service, or that we are not 'promoting' some part of Ireland... [More]
Irish and Chinese
Thursday, February 2 2006
I have just spent a couple of hours trying to register a domain name for a friend who wanted to use an Irish word, or one of a selection of them, with a .com. I didn't expect it to be too difficult but almost every word or word combination we tried... [More]
Everything has changed, nothing has changed
Thursday, August 11 2005
It is 10 years since the Internet became a subject of mass interest, rather than some arcane communications thingy for academics and spies, and there is a good article in the Belfast Telegraph giving a potted history of progress since then. It is also... [More]
It wasn't me!
Monday, May 30 2005
Browsing around Google yesterday on the search term 'dochara', just to see if anyone was mentioning us, I saw that someone had posted in the dating section of the Irish Examiner with that username. Coincidentally, about a half-hour later I got... [More]
Overflying the curiosities of the agglomeration
Monday, April 18 2005
Yesterday I decided that in order to bring DoChara to the world I would use Google Translate to make copies of the site available in French, German, Italian, Japanese and a host of other languages. Now I know that machine translation is not all it could... [More]
